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Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world

HistoryExtra podcast

HistoryExtra

History

4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We know the Vikings best as brutal, seafaring, pagan raiders – and that’s an important part of their lives and histories. But it’s only one aspect: what about their love lives, experiences of travels, and attitudes to religion? Speaking with James Osborne, Eleanor Barraclough unpicks the day-to-day lives and culture of the Vikings across their vast – and complicated – geographic domain and timeline. (Ad) Eleanor Barraclough is the author of Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age (Profile Books, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Embers-Hands-Intimate-History-Viking/dp/1788166744/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.1

Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.

1:14.2

We know the Vikings best as brutal, seafaring pagan raiders.

1:20.4

But that's only one aspect of their lives and histories.

1:24.4

What about their romances, experiences of travel and attitudes to religion?

1:30.3

Speaking with James Osborne, Eleanor Baraklough, author of the book Embers of the Hands, unpicks the day-to-day lives and culture of the Vikings.

1:40.5

Eleanor, your book Embers of the Hands is a glittering chronicle of the lives and histories of the

1:47.6

everyday Vikings. So let's start with that word. When we talk about the ancient Egyptians or the

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